Entire county seeing new developments

SYCAMORE - From Kirkland and DeKalb to Somonauk and Maple Park, just about every community in DeKalb County is seeing some form of new development at its outskirts or reinvestment in its downtown. During the DeKalb County Economic Development Corp.'s 15th annual State of the County presentation Tuesday night at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, the group's executive director, Roger Hopkins, highlighted a range of construction projects - everything from the expansion of the now-tiny Malta Township Library to a new 1.5 million-square-foot Target warehouse in DeKalb. And whereas just a few years ago, DeKalb and Sycamore were seeing the vast majority of home-building activity in the county, Hopkins on Tuesday could point to new subdivisions being